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Message of His Holiness Francis for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace

Fraternity, the Foundation and Pathway to Peace

Vatican
January 1, 2014

1. In this, my first Message for the World Day of Peace, I wish to offer to everyone, individuals and peoples, my best wishes for a life filled with joy and hope. In the heart of every man and woman is the desire for a full life, including that irrepressible longing for fraternity...

Kentucky Nuns Issue "Energy Vision", Urge Halt to Pipeline

December 15, 2013
By Keith Runyon
Huffington Post

Energy Vision Statement Call for Signatures

Center for Interfaith Relations
December 2013

Show your support and sign the statement by December 6: http://www.lorettocommunity.org/energy/

New Documentary Asks, Will We Have Wisdom to Survive?

December 2013
Press Release

Release Date: Nov. 1, 2013

Contact: Angela Alston, 718-407-0670, angela at mocamedia.tv

 

Founders of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology to discuss Thomas Berry and the New Story of Our Time

December 10, 2013
Press Release

CONTACT: Rachel Myslivy 785-764-2055 MysRachel@gmail.com

Lawrence, Kansas  – Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Founders of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, will present a community...

Operation Noah questions biased survey on church divestment from fossil fuels

December 10, 2013
Operation Noah Press Release

The Church of England’s Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) has shown itself to be biased and ill-informed when it comes to fossil fuel disinvestment, says Operation Noah.

The EIAG is reviewing its policy advice on climate change for the Church’s national investing bodies. As part of the process it has just produced a...

BeFriending Creation

Bi-monthly newsletter of Quaker Earthcare Witness

Volume 26, Number 6

November - December 2013

http://www.quakerearthcare.org/bfc/volume-26-number-6

Major New Review of Ethics of Animal Testing Research

December 3, 2013
Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics

A new review of the ethics of the use of animals in research is being pioneered by an international group of academics.

The rigorous academic document — one of the first to address the ethics of animal testing at length — will be produced by a Working Group of 18 international academics from six countries under the leadership...

New Report Offers Menu of Solutions to Close the Global Food Gap

Actions Needed to Improve Food Production and Consumption to Close the Projected 70 Percent Gap by 2050

United Nations Environment Programme
Press Release
December 3, 2013

8 Days of Hanukkah, my True Love said to me:"Please heal My Earth!"

November 27, 2013
By Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom Center

Hanukkah brings with it again this year three crucial teachings about healing our Mother Earth from the ravages of global scorching

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